A steady stream of citizens stopped at the Euless Police headquarters Wednesday to remember police officer David Hofer, killed in a shootout Tuesday.

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Hofer’s Facebook page, still up on Wednesday, has a photo of the officer on one knee, proposing to Danylyk in January 2015. Another photo shows him enjoying food at a festival with Danylyk in June 2014.

Pavlik called Hofer an exceptional police officer, person and friend to everyone in the Police Department and the community.

He had received eight commendation letters as a patrol officer.

“David had outstanding investigative and people skills, was extremely intuitive, and was an officer who exemplified our profession,” the lieutenant said.

His mother told the Post that Hofer had wanted to be a police officer since he was a boy. “He was so brave,” his mother told the Post, saying he wanted to write a book about his NYPD experience.

“Amongst all this sadness, something I think, is that if he had to go, this is how he would have wanted it to happen — honorably,” Barocas said. “He understood the risk, he signed up for it, he lived it, he owned it and he believed in it.

“In a time where there is so much tension between the police and the public — this was a good one. He lived and breathed the brothers in blue.”

Hofer was the son of European immigrants, graduated from St. Ann’s High School in Brooklyn and earned a bachelor’s degree from New York University in 2008.

Another friend, Mark Baker, 35, an electrician in Brooklyn, said he never expected to hear that Hofer had been killed in Texas.

“To hear this happened in Texas,” Baker said with a sigh over the phone Wednesday night. “That’s something I would have expected to hear happened here” in New York.

Within hours of Hofer’s death, officers from New York’s 9th Precinct had sent condolences via Twitter.